Lemmy hangs whenever I try to post my response (I suspect it doesn’t like the length), so here’s a link to it on Github Gist:

https://gist.github.com/ssokolow/16c9311573eabc7343ff7ff2cc3513b3

It begins as follows and I’ve tried to hyperlink my sources as often as possible:

I’ll try to fill in some of the knowledge gaps and respond to some of your answers from a more user-centric perspective.

Moxie Marlinspike’s My first impressions of web3 is also a very relevant thing to share.

As a sampler of the points made, web3 is already re-centralizing around gatekeepers because the average person doesn’t want to run their own server (or, in the blockchain case, host their own full copy of the blockchain) and, if the supermajority of users can’t see you because the gatekeepers block you, then it doesn’t really matter that you’re technically still up.

The takeaway on that particular point is that pushing for more and easier data portability is probably the best route in the face of how real-world users behave. (eg. anything stored in a git repository, including GitHub project wiki contents, is a great example of that. You’ve got your data locally with a simple git clone and you can upload it to a competing service with a simple git push.)